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Definition of Jest
Jest
A deed; an action; a gest.

A mask; a pageant; an interlude.

Something done or said in order to amuse; a joke; a witticism; a jocose or sportive remark or phrase. See Synonyms under Jest, v. i.

The object of laughter or sport; a laughingstock.

To take part in a merrymaking; -- especially, to act in a mask or interlude.

To make merriment by words or actions; to joke; to make light of anything.

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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Henry David Thoreau

A lot of truth is said in jest.
Eminem

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling

Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
Bette Davis

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
Helen Rowland

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Friedrich Schiller

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg



Jest Translations
jest in Dutch is boerten, gekscheren, schertsen
jest in French is plaisanter
jest in Italian is scherzare
jest in Latin is iocus, ioco iocor
jest in Spanish is chancear


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